skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory EU and the Euro area are the same, because the TFEU says so. But in practice it's more complicated than this as Danes negotiated and opt-out clause during the negotiation of the treaty of Maastricht, and even though such clause isn't open to new entrants, in reality nothing prevents negotiations to eventually lead to such an outcome.

The case of Sweden is interesting though, they don't have an opt-out clause so they are obligated to adopt the Euro eventually, but they exploited a loophole by not joining the newest version of European Exchange Rate Mechanism after the 1999, which prevents their entry in the Euro.
That's not really the case. The kernel-much like a police force-is not a monolithic entity, there are various parts of the kernel that get information before others. eBPF does let you "hook" various parts of the kernel, so that you can get an "exec" event from before the exec actually happens (you can't stop it, though, so even this is somewhat dubious). But someone in the kernel can intercept the hook itself, or uninstall it completely. In the police analogy even if you have a friend in the force that you know is good, they are still part of the police. Even if the first thing they do when they get information is share it with you, there's no guarantee the dirty cop isn't sitting in the mail room ready to shred things before they get it.
And using Claude with Cline, partially because of prompt caching, it's noticeably cheaper as well.
I believe I saw or read somewhere that, in the case of the brain, memories were not as much stored as they were reconstructed when recalled. If that's true, I feel like we are witnessing something similar with LLMs as well as with stable diffusion type of things. Is there any studies looking into this in the AI world? Also if anyone knows what I'm referring to (i.e "reconstructing memories") I would love some pointers because I can't remember for the love of me where I heard or read of this idea!
You can derive naviger stokes from newtons laws, or I suppose some conversation laws.
How do you do multiple pastes of one cut? My clipboard has history too, I can choose out of it.
A high profile campaign during Brexit was about U.K. fishing. U.K. fishing rights were sold by local fishermen to large multinational companies who are more economically efficient (at least in the short term - sustainability is a bad word) many years ago.

Unlike Iceland, fishing is a negligible part of the U.K. economy (c0.1% vs c10%), yet was used by people who couldn’t give a stuff about fishing as a weapon.
> Now, the disagreement: is BigCo actually getting $10/hr of value out of those workers? Or is it $20/hr, or $50/hr, or $5/hr, or $2/hr?

I think this is the wrong question and it’s not our job to solve that.

Example - suppose I have a diamond mine, I can hire anyone with zero skill - homeless, drug addicts, criminals - pay them $5 an hour and they will dig up $1,000 of diamonds a day. What is the answer your own question - how much value is the business getting?

What we should consider instead is this - there is a certain cost for civilisation to continue. Workers must be born, educated, and then create the new generation. If they are not paid enough to continue the cycle, we will not let the country collapse, will we?

I as a taxpayer will end up picking up the tab in one way or another - whether it’s through food stamps, or in immigration or something else.

These jobs could be a total net loss once you account for carbon emissions and other externalities.

I would rather get these people to do charity work or plant trees instead.
> So to me it seems that the EU as a single block is almost finished.

I don't know how old you are but as a European with a passing interest in politics I have been hearing this at least every month for the last ~20 years. And I'm sure it was said long before then.

What you need to understand is that the EU exists, and has pretty much always existed, in a constant state of crisis. There is always some major disagreement, some urgent problem. This is just a consequence of the EU's existence as an attempt to unify (in some respects) 27 pretty diverse member states. The EU has survived all of these crises to date. I'm not saying it will exist forever, but I see no reason to believe that the current set of crises will be the ones to kill it. The EU may change but I think it will trundle on for the foreseeable future.

Also, there is already an "inner union", it is called the eurozone. Again... constant state of crisis.
I woke up to this article and now I feel profoundly inadequate.
Selective testing is great also for smaller projects to help keep velocity high for merging and working with branches with many commits.

I implemented selective testing using bazel for a CI some years ago, and it was painful to get it right. When finished even bigger branches would only take seconds-to-minutes to go through the pipeline, which was a significant improvement from the ~30 minutes build when I started working with the project, even though the project size grew a lot.

Glad to see mill-build is prioritizing this feature.
Let's wait and see. This is a case study in how not to shut down a company. I, like many business owners, will have already started looking at alternatives. With an estimated 35,000 businesses you would have thought Bench would have some acquisition offers on the table before they chose to close.
Are you saying it’s a solution to my lack of retirement plans then?
No, a fisheye is still just a very wide lens with a single focal length. This lens claims to have two focal lengths.
"Dumb electronics" - iPods/MP3players, dumbphones, e-ink screens/phones/readers, film cameras.
Don't forget one click to pay. Remove all friction from the payment process.
It is actionable. It means you don't use the phone for anything important-- effectively, that you accept that it is useless and that you should use other means of communication.
Well RIP. I live near Gurugram, India, where a village is named after him. Old relatives used to tell stories about him, he was a simple man and a good human being.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carterpuri
Carlsen to rejoin chess championship after jeans dispute resolved
"Dumb electronics" will be hot - iPods/MP3players, dumbphones, e-ink screens/phones/readers, film cameras.
Frankly, OpenAI efforts seem quite funny for me personally as for most tasks I do Claude is far superior and yet OpenAI behaves as if they were the only game in town.

The so-called open source models are getting better and better and even if OpenAI suddenly discovered some new tech that would allow for another breakthrough, it will be immediately picked up by others.
So did Hitler. I mean, he did end up killing Hitler, that's gotta count for something!
Why is everyone so sure that technology can’t be the moat? Why are you convinced that all AI systems will be very similar in performance and cost, hence be interchangeable?
Isn’t Google the perfect example that you can create a moat by technological leadership in a nascent space? When Google came along it was 10X better than any alternative and they grabbed the whole market. Now their brand and market position make it almost impossible to compete.
I guess the bet is that one of the AI companies achieves a huge breakthrough and a 10X value creation compared to its competitors…
Nice setup! I'm using Guix with EXWM and Emacs for most things. Just wondering why you went with Qutiebrowser instead of something like Nyxt?
It’s an amazing butterfly effect - how something seemingly small - Angus Deyton doing hookers and blow - led to Boris Johnson’s popularity on a panel show which led to his London mayorship and antics which endeared him enough to be able to swing enough votes during Brexit to sway one way or another.
Maybe because that's the most exciting and revealing part of the tech?

Or maybe the output is boring. i.e. two different output streams with acceptably sharp image with well controlled distortion.
I am sorry to say that the elections in Russia are more reliable than that in the US, where they take a month to count.
Unfortunately, Aliexpress links go dead quickly.

Perhaps you mean something like these:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806952052632.html

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256806950028548.html

I'd be interested to know if they can really up/down convert voltage as appropriate for USB-C.
I've never been part of a community where I've lived. The activity-specific communities I participate in are miles from where I live.
> OpenAI has a short-ish window of opportunity to figure out how to build a moat.

See the scramble to make themselves arbiters of "good AI" with regulators around the world. It's their only real hope but I think the cat's already out of the bag.
the first one is covered here

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/01/11/jimmy-carters-blood-...

for more details you can also look at part 1

https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/18/jimmy-carters-blood-...
In other news "Popular online media outlet publishes story about stopping smoking to generate engagement in time for New Year resolutions. Written in a way that sharing it with family members seems caring instead of pushy".

I did get a reasonable article from chatgpt with the prompt "Write a 500 word article about stopping smoking to in time for New Year resolutions. Written in a way that sharing it with family members seems caring instead of pushy. Make it sound like it has a strong medical and scientific foundation. Include statistics about impact on life expectancy". They don't need to have their best journalists around this time of year.

It got engagement and clicks from me.
Showing the age, Borland IDEs for MS-DOS, as one data point among many other ones.

In fact, the whole TUI craziness of IT world fashion is getting back to what used to be daily business in the 1980's and early 1990's.
Thanks, I don't take BP medication
A type checking error in Elixir 1.18
> It's not better to have people have no jobs and require 100% assistance

It is actually. Former employees are free to learn new skills or do charity instead of being busy surviving a game they can’t win.

You are also subsidising an economically wasteful activity that cannot cover its own true costs - if fast food joint can’t pay a wage, it does not cover the negative externalities from extra traffic on the road, carbon emissions and people getting fat.

Business will be forced to innovate and invest in automation
Was hoping this would be a LM Studio alternative (for local LLMs) with a friendlier UI. I think there's a genuine need for that.

It could make available only the LLLMs that your Mac is able to run.

Many Silicon owners are sitting on very able hardware without even knowing.
Adding to this, inference is getting cheaper and more efficient all the time. The investment bubble is probably the biggest reason why inference hardware is so expensive at the moment and why startups in this sector are only targeting large scale applications.

Once this bubble bursts, local inference will become even more affordable than it already is. There is no way that there will be a moat around running models as a service.

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Similarly, there probably won't be a "data moat". The whole point of large foundation models is that they are great priors. You need relatively few examples to fine tune an LLM or diffusion model to get it to do what you want. So long as someone releases up to date foundation models there is no moat here either.
Yeah. I'm astonished that people aren't looking at the EU and AV referendums and thinking that we need to drastically overhaul how we conduct them in future. Guidelines have been published with some pretty obvious improvements, like the sitting government not campaigning for one side.
I expect depth of focus to be different.
Intersting, thanks for sharing! For me it's also better a few days, than worse a few days, and I can't figure out why. Does not seem directly correlated to food or alcohol (sometimes I drink a few beer and feel great the next few days, and then I don't drink alcohol for a week and it gets worse). I also cut out coffee for 2 months and did not see any effect. I eat plant-based and mostly cook at home, not much fatty foods.

For how long did you have the sore throat in total, do you remember?
'Illusion of truth' surrounds inaccurate tyre pollution figures
Like completely fabricate what they need for a plausible answer from thin air.

Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. He just made stuff up all the time. Turns out, the answers never actually mattered, people were just bored at their desk and wanted to give the appearance of doing work. I think he's in management at Apple now.
Maybe because for 99.9% of users (usecases) what today's llm technology offers is already good enough?

Or maybe nvidia has the moat. Or silicon fabs have it.
Show HN: Timesheet Conversion Calculator – Simplify Hours to Decimals Instantly
LLMs do not store and retrieve sequences. LLMs are not databases. LLMs are not predictable state machines. Understand how these things work.

They take the input context and generate the next token, then feed that whole thing back in as context and predict the next token, and repeat until the most likely next token is their stop word.

If they produce anything like a retrieved sequence, that's because they just happened to pick that set of tokens based on their training data. Regenerating the output from exactly the same input has a non-zero chance of generating different output.
Ad-free and fast, Wikipedia is imo the best learning resource on-the-go, at home, or at work.
Runway ML already does this I think
Always interesting to see when discussions end in an ad hominem.

I guess it is very hard to refute 4th grade biology.
> assuming infinite resolution

this is an assumption that goes against the concept of "f-number" so if one does it, they should not expect to get to anything sensible.
Thanks; that is a good paper. I had heard of the author from his Superintelligence book but never really read any of his works. I had come to my own conclusions that Science/Technology, the Complexity they entail and the uses they will be put to will ultimately be our undoing. This paper on their stark misuse (IMO it is a question of "when" and not "if") is indeed a timely reminder.
Video of the talk:
https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-vo...
I always allocate an email of my+company@myemail.com and the number of email validators that don't accept that "+" is a legit email character is infuriating.
I'm not asking you to do research, I'm asking you to look up definitions you don't understand. There's a difference.
"AI" (hallucinating LLMs) "solving" healthcare. One can just hope the VC money is not big enough for that horror show.
If we'd get a cent for every doomsaying post about EU in last 30 years, we could probably make our own Elon Musk.
Question: my colleague has a Mac with a Timemachine and thinks he is safe for ransomware. Is that, in a practical sense, true?
I'm talking about a cash in hand offer: a literal bank wire to every person in Greenland. Greenlandic politicians holding out for a different offer might find themselves voted out by people that rather like the idea of $50k in cash ($200k for a family of four, etc).

Re subsidies, the US federal government subsidised local and state governments to the tune of $1.1 trillion in 2023 alone, with funding disproportionately directed to poorer regions (such as Greenland, were it to join). That's not including direct spending on Native Americans, for which most Greenlanders would also be eligible. With no special arrangements whatsoever, Greenland would likely see a comparable amount of subsidy in the US as it does today (and very likely much greater economic growth). In reality, some level of subsidy guarantee for a period of some years could easily be part of the accession negotiations.

The real question isn't whether the US can afford Greenland - they can, many times over - the real question is the value of sovereignty (and I don't have the answer to that).
What made you use caddy in front of tiny-http? I guess tiny-http should be still fine on its own. genuinely curious
The fun thing is that this sounds like "just" a more type-safe version of the way DSLs are usually implemented in imperative languages, particularly scripting languages.

In Python, if I have:

def foo(x):
return x**2 - 1

I can plug in a concrete argument:

>>> foo(2)
3

But I can also plug in abstract values provided by some library where all operators are overloaded to return another AST node. For instance:

>>> from z3 import *
>>> expr = foo(Int('x'))
>>> expr
x**2 - 1
>>> type(expr)
<class 'z3.z3.ArithRef'>

And then I can perform abstract operations on the resulting AST node, like solving for x:

>>> solve(expr == 0)
[x = -1]

Of course this is completely non-type-safe. And without purity, there's no guarantee that `foo(Int('x'))` is truly equivalent to running foo on an abstract value `x`. If there's an `if` statement in there, the condition will either pass or not, and the returned AST node will only include that control flow path. The DSL in question tries to block that by preventing AST nodes from being converted to boolean, but it's not perfect. Haskell has an advantage there.

On the other hand, for the situation at the end of the post, where the author wants to model imperative computations, it seems like an imperative language would make for easier embedding. In an imperative language, each AST node can be given its own unique ID when it's constructed. So there's no trouble distinguishing between, e.g., calling some function bar() and then using the return value twice, versus calling bar() twice. No need to use a separate <- operator for assignments.

But to be fair, explicitly distinguishing side effects is kind of the whole point of Haskell!

(And if you wanted badly enough to do it in Haskell without requiring <-, you could use unsafePerformIO to assign AST node IDs.)
Limits to Growth (1972)
Its fairly well known how these things generally happen in a bureaucracy.

One word, corruption.

Its been known that starting in 1976 PFAS were first found in human blood, and it was rediscovered a second time in the 1990s (at 3M).

Obesity has increased dramatically starting in that same time frame. No mention of PFAS causing toxicological issues related to obesity, or inflammation, and when you ask the wrong questions (is it diet, or is it toxic exposure), and doctors aren't testing for the latter, of course there is going to be a quagmire of bad data in the catchall statistics.
I made maps that show time instead of space
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524422
They can, pretty much like in the EU. There might be some technical differences, but overall it's both "right to work and stay if employed"
>If we could use tax dollars to make Kaiser national, and scale that large without losing the efficiency and results, we'd be in darned good shape.

It's hard to do that without turning it into the NHS.
For comparison, that's significantly larger approval than the US federal president most of the last decades. ;)
I am Peruvian, it was just a lot of hard work. The culture was already there. Quechua was there before the Inca. Their was organization before Inca, as there were tribes which were organized. The Inca just took them over and re-organized. The Inca were also geniuses. They just figured it out.
> Well, no, they're proposed by the government of their country.

Yes, that’s how democracy works. Countries have elected governments.

> Party list systems (which is what alternatives to FPTP tend to boil down to)

Huh? It’s a proportional system and everyone is free to present their own list if they disagree with the existing organisation presenting lists. The fact that you can’t be bothered to take part in the political life of your country is not magically a loss of democratic accountability.
Where does your hypothesis come from? Any architecture chart will point out that XDP will be processed before all other network modules. If XDP is not offloaded, the driver will always process the XDP hooks before the rest of the network stack is called.

In your assumed concept, how else would offloading to a NIC that does not run a kernel work?
I find this interesting, I saw a couple of other comments by you on this. Do you have a blog article or paper about this architecture?
Even if the price is the same, "old" distribution models have benefits. If you're satisfied with your current version and it still works, no need to continue paying. If you maintain older systems, your software still works without continuing to pay in perpetuity.

I much prefer buying software licenses outright than renting them forever.
Far more serious is that these disposable vapes are easily accessible to kids as young as 12. Literally one third of the kids in my child's secondary school are vaping in the toilets between classes. It would be much harder to do this if they had to pay for and use a large permanent vape . It's an epidemic and that is not hyperbole. The environmental gains of this ban are just icing on the cake.
in which setup ? I don't think of a regular stack where you'd want a db stored as a file local to your api server. Can you store that sqlite file on a persistant ebs volume ?
How is this different to winlator? It seems to depend on termux
I disagree. It's a problem with tech because even if regulations exist, new tech moves much faster than regulation. And technology is too seductive to be used properly so people indeed end up serving tech just as drug addicts live for their habit. Many more details are explained in "The Metaphysics of Technology" by David Skrbina or "The Technological Society" by Jacques Ellul.

Technology has a tendency to overwhelm and transform everything for the sake of technology.
I accept everything life brings me and have very little influence over it. I am accepting this only as much as I accepted millions dying in a pandemic. The fact that one did happen and other might happen has very little meaning to me.

> Please keep it an intra-slavic conflict!

Here's that pesky isolationism that had to always be circumvented in order for USA to dominate the globe the way it did and getting rich of this the way it did.

What makes you think russia has any intention to keep the conflict intra-Slavic with constant talk about multipolar world with them in one of the leading roles? Trying to cosplay it a little bit already with BRICS? Why the biggest hit to their ambitions since 2022 was them getting pushed out of Syria? How's that intra-Slavic? Domination over their self-appointed zone of influence is just a stepping stone as it always was.
Commercial tea bags release millions of microplastics when in use
How do you really expect the police to do so? Even the secret service can't stop presidential candidates from getting shot at, and you can't possibly expect the police to provide anything approaching that level of security.
Here is an implementation of Leitner Box in Rust:

https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/leitner-box-rs
"The impact is mostly on women and girls, for whom female-only spaces are essential for their safety and dignity."

This is an inherently self-contradictory position, because it implies that trans men must be forced into women's spaces.